P80-2
Spacecraft · USA
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Technology, science satellite built by Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., Ball Space Systems, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for US Air Force.
More at: P80-2.
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2 events
1978 January 3
- Spacecraft for the Satellite Infrared Experiment (SIRE). - .
Spacecraft Bus: P.
Spacecraft: P80-2.
Lockheed Missiles and Space Company was awarded a $34 million contract to build a spacecraft for the Satellite Infrared Experiment (SIRE), designed to measure long wave infrared signatures. The spacecraft would also carry two secondary payloads - a space sextant and a sensor that would measure the isotopic composition of solar flares.
1979 April 26
- Satellite Infrared Experiment terminated - .
Spacecraft Bus: P.
Spacecraft: P80-2.
SAMSO terminated the SIRE (Satellite Infrared Experiment) contract with Lockheed because of large cost overruns. The SIRE payload was to have been launched on flight P80-2 and was to have measured the long wave infrared signatures of space objects against the stellar background. SAMSO began to develop a program to fly the SIRE sensor on space shuttle sortie missions around the mid-1980s.